In 1815 a wealthy young Englishman travelling in France meets a veiled countess at the inn of the Belle Étoile and is swept into an intrigue of masquerades, a jealous count, a mysterious marquis and a room at the inn called the Dragon Volant. Le Fanu presents the case as one cited by Dr. Hesselius in his essay on the drugs of the Middle Ages.
The novella that fills the second volume of In a Glass Darkly, complete in itself and a tense Gothic thriller. Download the free EPUB.